hw <- read.csv("data/heightweight.csv")
fit <- lm(weightLb ~ heightIn, data = hw)
plot(hw$heightIn, hw$weightLb, xlab = "Height (Inches)", ylab = "Weight (Lbs)")
abline(fit, lty = 2)

knitr + git

+

library(knitr)
knit('001-minimal.Rmd')

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to humans what we want the computer to do. -- Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming, 1984

• Wildlife:

  • game, fish, moose, wildlife, hunting, bears, polar, bear, subsistence, management, area, board, hunt, wolves, control, department, year, use, wolf, habitat, hunters, caribou, program, denby, fishing, …

• Energy/Fuel/Oil/Mining:

  • energy, fuel, costs, oil, alaskans, prices, cost, nome, now, high, being, home, public, power, mine, crisis, price, resource, need, community, fairbanks, rebate, use, mining, villages, …

• Trig/Family/Inspiration:

  • family, web, mail, god, son, from, congratulations, children, life, child, down, trig, baby, birth, love, you, syndrome, very, special, bless, old, husband, years, thank, best, …

• Education/Waste:

  • school, waste, education, students, schools, million, read, email, market, policy, student, year, high, news, states, program, first, report, business, management, bulletin, information, reports, 2008, quarter, …

"The R community is one of the most thrilling places to be in Big Data right now." --TechCrunch

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37483.html

http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/

These slides were created using Ramnath Vaidyanathan's Slidify package

Slide source available on github